Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · vessel
Jar with Tubular Handles
Description
Object Label: Masterpieces of Stone Carving During the Predynastic Period, Egyptians mastered the working of even the hardest stone. They especially favored attractively colored stones, like the porphyry, breccia, and obsidian shown here. To create the mace head (war club) and jar in this case, an artisan laboriously ground and polished the stones with increasingly fine abrasives. A method called flaking—carefully applying pressure with another stone—produced the serrated obsidian object. Caption: Jar with Tubular Handles, ca. 3500–3100 B.C.E.. Breccia, 5 1/2 x greatest diam. 7 5/16 in. (14 x 18.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 35.1314. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Connections
Found at
Egypt
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1314 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3367 tier-2
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